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Rivas Department
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department in southwestern Nicaragua with a long coastline on the Pacific Ocean
Key facts
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Capital
- Rivas
- Department
- 2,162 km (835 sq mi)
- Density
- 84.93/km (220.0/sq mi)
- Urban
- 91,899
- Iso 3166 2
- NI-RI
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Nicaragua
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Nicaragua
- Contains
- Tola
- Capital
- Rivas
- Population
- 156283
- Area
- 2162
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Alajuela Province
- Image
- OmetepeView 08.jpg
- Licence plate code
- RI
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- Commons category
- Rivas Department
- different from
- Rivas
- topic's main category
- Category:Rivas Department
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Rivas Department
- inception
- 1858-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Rivas ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈriβas]) is a department of the Republic of Nicaragua. It covers an area of 2,162 km (835 sq mi) and has a population of 183,611 (2021 estimate). The department's capital is the city of Rivas. The indigenous inhabitants of Rivas are the Nicarao, and was the location of the pre-Columbian Nahua chiefdoms of Kwawkapolkan and Kakawatan.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rivas Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.